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Debord, Time and Spectacle
Hegelian Marxism and Situationist Theory
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 155
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In Debord, Time and Spectacle Tom Bunyard provides a detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. Drawing on evidence from Debordâs books, films, letters and notes, Bunyard reconstructs the Hegelian and Marxian ideas that support Debordâs central concept of âspectacleâ. This affords a reconsideration of Debordâs theoretical claims, and a reinterpretation of his broader work that foregrounds his concerns with history and lived time. By bringing Situationist theory into dialogue with recent reinterpretations of Marx, this book also identifies problems in Debordâs critique of capitalism. It argues, however, that the conceptions of temporality and spectacle that support that critique amount to a philosophy of praxis that remains relevant today.
Tom Bunyard, Ph.D. (2012), Goldsmiths, is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Programme at the University of Brighton. He has published several articles on the relationship between Debord, Hegel and Marx, and works on critical theory and philosophy of history.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Radioactivity
1 Interpreting the Theory of Spectacle
2 Five Aspects of Debordâs Theoretical Work
3 âWe are Artists Insofar as We are No Longer Artistsâ
4 The Everyday and the Absolute
5 âAvant-Gardes Have Only One Timeâ
6 Debord and French Hegelianism
7 Subjects and Objects: Debord, Lukács and the Young Marx
8 Life and Non-life
9 Never Work!
10 âI am Nothing and I Should be Everythingâ
11 The âFetishism of Capitalâ
12 Moving with Historyâs âBad Sideâ
13 Strategy and Tactics in the Integrated Spectacle
14 The Knight, Death and the Devil
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Radioactivity
Subjectivity, Temporality and Spectacle
1 Interpreting the Theory of Spectacle
2 Five Aspects of Debordâs Theoretical Work
The New Beauty: 1951â62
3 âWe are Artists Insofar as We are No Longer Artistsâ
4 The Everyday and the Absolute
5 âAvant-Gardes Have Only One Timeâ
âEverything that had Formerly been Absolute Became Historicalâ
6 Debord and French Hegelianism
7 Subjects and Objects: Debord, Lukács and the Young Marx
8 Life and Non-life
In Pursuit of the Northwest Passage: 1963â73
9 Never Work!
10 âI am Nothing and I Should be Everythingâ
11 The âFetishism of Capitalâ
The Integrated Spectacle: 1974â94
12 Moving with Historyâs âBad Sideâ
13 Strategy and Tactics in the Integrated Spectacle
14 The Knight, Death and the Devil
Bibliography
Index
All interested in the work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, but also those who are engaged with Hegel, Marx, critical theory and cultural studies.